Love Is Essential for Survival

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Love Is Essential for Survival

Many historians believe that fire was the most important discovery in all of prehistory. They are in fact, wrong. If it hadn't been for another discovery long before that, fire may have never been found. The most important discovery was love.

Many people would argue, saying, "How can we know if they loved?". I can only prove it by the fact that they survived. If it had not been for love, there would be no reason to live. There must have been, and must now be, love to hold a person to life. I can't claim to know what early man loved, whether it be the hunt, a food, or even the love of life itself.

What's the most common thought after someone has lost everything they loved? Quite often, suicide is the first thought. The force that stops some though, is that they found something to love or remembered someone who loved them. Imagine a web stretching out from a person, connecting the person to the things they love. However once the strands are severed the person is no longer stable and finds themselves falling, it is now that survival is...

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